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Butchering Book

Step by step photography of the farm-to-table process shows exactly how to slaughter and butcher small livestock in a humane and sustainable way. This comprehensive guide includes in-depth coverage of food safety, freezing and packaging, tools and equipment, butchering methods, and preslaughter conditions.

Butchering Book

Common Uses

An in depth instruction manual for processing meat from poultry, rabbits, sheep goats and pigs.

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By Adam Danforth. Foreword by Joel Salatin. Softcover. 56 pages.

Locally raised animals, humanely slaughtered and expertly butchered. This is the best meat we can eat and, with Adam Danforth’s comprehensive manual, you can learn the skills necessary to take an animal calmly and efficiently from pasture to freezer.

Every step of the slaughtering process—from selecting the proper equipment to preparing, stunning, and bleeding the animals — is presented with careful consideration for the animals‘ well-being and your safety.

Butcher the carcass to maximize food yield and get the cuts you want. You‘ll find various options for breaking down each species, with hundreds of step-by-step photographs that put you at the butchers‘s table to observe the art of cutting and boning, trimming fat, and connective tissue, and rolling and tying.

Scrupulous attention to sanitation and detailed instructions for packaging and freezing your meat for the best quality, appearance, and freshness ensure that the animals you process will nourish and satisfy everyone they feed.

Benefits

Excellent photos detailing the entire processing experience. They are large, full color and of high quality. You’d be hard-pressed not to learn something from this book.

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About Conductivity

Conductivity measures the amount of electrical current a material can carry. The opposite measure is known as resistance.

Many of Premier’s nets feature a green and white superconductor that has both stainless steel and tinned copper filaments for optimal conductivity. These “premium” nets are 10 times more conductive (38 ohms per 1000') than our “basic” nets. This enables the electric pulse to travel much farther and be less affected by weed contact.

We do not recommended the basic nets listed below for fences exceeding 500 ft in length:

Customers who are unhappy with netting are often those who’ve chosen one of these or their farmstore equivalents. Why do we offer them? Because they are similar in design and conductivity (380 ohms) to nets from our competitors—and comparisons make decisions easier.

Types of Line Posts

Line posts are built into the net. Three options are available.*

Single Spike (SS)The best choice, unless your soils are always soft or very hard.

Double Spike (DS)Posts allow you to push in the spikes with your foot. When soil is hard or rocky, double spikes are more difficult to install and remove.

Drivable Posts (DP)Allows use of a mallet or dead blow hammer for installing posts in dry, hard or rocky soil. Features a “spike stop” for extra support and internal fiberglass ribs for added strength.

Tip: To insert a line post into frozen or hard soil, use a power tool to drill pilot holes.

* Not all fences have all line post options.

About Positive/Negative (Pos/Neg) Nets

Is your area dry?

Conventional electrified fence systems rely on soil moisture to be effective. However, not all areas have the required moisture.

To overcome this, Pos/Neg nets* are wired to allow the use of every other horizontal strand as an extension of the ground terminal. Because half the strands are connected to the ground terminal or ground rod, reliance on soil moisture is reduced. A PowerLink must be purchased separately to make the secondary ground connection.

How it works…

In order to receive a shock, the animal must touch both a positive (hot) and negative (grounded) strand at the same time. This will deliver more pain to the animal than an all hot net (Pos/Pos) because moisture in the soil is not required to complete the circuit.

Pos/Neg fences can be converted to Pos/Pos in moist conditions. Remember, all fences must be kept free of vegetation.

* Not all fences have Pos/Neg options.

Line Post Spacing

“Plus” nets—6'8" spacings between line posts

Standard nets—10' or 12' spacings between line posts

Essential Energizer Advice

Buy a larger energizer than necessary. When the fence pleases, most folks will buy more fence—and need additional output.